• Responding to email notices you receive.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

  • IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!! About the Google Adsense ads being displayed

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    Posted 08/15/2025
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    Yeah, I know. They are a pain in the butt. But they pay the bills to keep my server running. Just a fact of life, I am afraid.

    Want to get rid of them? Simple. Just become a Contributor level member or above and they will be gone. -> Please click HERE."

    Is that too much for me to ask of you to keep this site running? Well, sorry about that. I too wish I could get everything for free. But alas.....

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    Addendum: 01/10/2026
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    Google Adsense ad revenue for December, 2025 was just $30 over the cost of the lease for the server running this site. So, in effect, the money providing the incentive for me to continue running this site is coming SOLELY from the paid memberships and sponsorships here. Which honestly ain't much....

Can't see pictures posted? This may be what you need

Sometimes these security and spam blocking tools can be a cure that is worse then the disease.

The reason the security settings will block embedded links (images) on a web page is because some sites will harvest IP addresses and other info that way. Whenever you view an image that resides on a remote server, you are actually accessing that server from your home computer. So that means your local machine's information is available to that server and can be harvested for the spam engines.

To give you an example of what I mean, if you view a thread on this site and someone has posted a photograph that actually resides on spammers.com, as soon as you view the thread, your browser makes a call to spammers.com in order to retrieve that image. Doesn't matter that you were only viewing the thread here on this site, you also made a call to that server that spammers.com resides on as well.

This appears to be one of the major ways that spammers operate via spam emails. Notice the catchy titles? All they want you to do is to open the email to look.
 
Jebuscreeps... So what are people to do? Run their antivirus and antispyware software right after reading a thread?

Wanda
 
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